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2013-03-08 Kentucky, Indiana begin procurement of services needed for tolling

2013-03-08 Maryland's premier pike - the JFK Highway I-95 - is the key to state's revenue enhancement

2013-03-07 There's plenty of money for roads.. if only they'll toll - by Andrew Terhune

2013-03-07 Massachusetts plans end of cash toll collection, AET conversion by mid-2016, Tobin Bridge demo 2014

2013-03-07 Use of logos - possible legal complaint against TOLLROADSnews

2013-03-07 Pikes busy with snow & ice, in Norfolk VA they watch for tidal flood overnight

2013-03-07 RFP: Toll CSC, TMC & Ferry Phone Reservation Operations (NCDOT/NCTA)

2013-03-06 How America learned to not build things QUOTABLE

2013-03-06 Tollways grow around Texas' Austin-Bergstrom airport - TX71 and 183S

2013-03-05 Chess - where would America be without us immigrants?

2013-03-05 Maine first open road toll conversion at New Gloucester to take traffic April 1st

2013-03-04 “The Five Biggest Lies About Highway Tolls” - by Jim Cameron, Darien CT

2013-03-04 MA3 road to the Cape might see Massachusetts' first toll lanes, investors want to build

2013-03-03 Watch out Mr President you have a competitor in Richmond VA - Bob Mc 'Smiley' Donnell

2013-03-03 Washington's weasel words - sequestration, cuts, balanced approach etc QUOTABLE

2013-03-02 Xerox chosen for TxDOT's Toll Ops & CSC operator - the job FSTech was cancelled on last summer

2013-02-28 Toll systems for managed lanes on El Paso TX Loop 375 border highway contracted

2013-02-28 3M closing Irvine CA facility, moving VESystems, other FSTech positions to Austin TX, a few to St Paul MN

2013-02-28 FBI offered sites off Dulles Toll Road & Dulles Greenway for new 11,000 person headquarters

2013-02-27 Canadians at Port Mann H1 in Vancouver BC proving ground for US IOP/AET

2013-02-26 Garden Parkway in Charlotte NC given diminishing prospects in local report

2013-02-26 LA's 10 ExpressLanes see first workday's traffic

2013-02-26 Turkey drops toll road privatization - bids "too low"

2013-02-25 Joe Boyer new north America CEO at Atkins PERSONNEL

2013-02-25 The Sproutpeople story - an American classic WEEKEND READING

2013-02-25 Orlando's only 'freeway' I-4 to get toll lanes - procurement of 40yr DBFOM contractor begins

2013-02-23 VA/I-95 toll plan killed

2013-02-22 PANYNJ establishes near-$million/year "Transparency Office" and highlights the farce

2013-02-22 NTTA removing last remnants of cash toll collection in Dallas area

2013-02-21 Illinois Tollway advances design of new slowspeed parkway-like tollroads IL53/120 northwest of Chicago

2013-02-21 Atkins have more work in Dallas, San Fran, Florida - 3 new contracts

2013-02-20 BrisConnections ceases fighting bankruptcy, hands over toll tunnelway in Brisbane Oz to 'administrators'

2013-02-19 Tokens disappearing as RF prox cards, mobile phone, 6C tags displace electromechanics at DW Tunnel

2013-02-18 The Post-Truth Era - because it pays so well to dissemble & spin QUOTABLE

2013-02-18 New York State Thruway to go cashless at three major barrier plazas - savings at TZ Bridge

2013-02-17 Clayton Howe leaving Ops NTTA, Texas IOP Chair for Atkins PERSONNEL

2013-02-15 Texas and Oklahoma tollers likely to go interoperable in 2014

2013-02-15 Fitch Ratings say US toll agencies had better 2012

2013-02-15 USEPA slow-tracks Obama's fast-track for Bayonne Bridge NY-NJ

2013-02-14 NC Turnpike ops director $20k to $350k salary?

2013-02-13 Obama gets applause from DC groups for 'Fix-it-First' in SoTU

2013-02-13 VA Governor McDonnell transport funding plan hardly got a hearing CORRECTION

2013-02-13 Keeping 5.9 Gig for roadway comms - toll industry joins others in calling for FCC to go slow

2013-02-12 US-Canada toll traffic anaemic recovery

2013-02-12 Ron Freeland former MdTA CEO joins Parsons Brink PERSONNEL

2013-02-12 WA/I-90 Cross-Lake tolling up for public comment on alternatives, then legislative vote

2013-02-11 Maryland MD200/ICC keeps low low speed limit

2013-02-09 Bill advances in Oregon legislature to support investor-built pike on SW edge of Portland area

2013-02-08 Finland-based Confidex gets certified for N American tolling with 6C tags

2013-02-08 Missing lines of code in transaction management software cause double billing in North Carolina REVISED

2013-02-07 Barry Mickle moves from NCTA to AECOM - PERSONNEL

2013-02-07 Facebook and LinkedIn "invitations" ignored

2013-02-07 Congestion stabilized by weak economy, TTI/INRIX data show

2013-02-06 MD200/ICC has accident rate one third statewide average - posted speed going up 5mph

2013-02-06 PA Governor Corbett proposes big hikes in gas tax

2013-02-05 The Benefits of Open-Road Tolling

2013-02-05 US Government sues S&P over AAA ratings for junk MBSs, fraud charged in 2007-2009 financial crash

2013-02-05 VA 495 Express Lanes traffic "below expectations, adjustments needed" operator tells shareholders

2013-02-04 Geo Washington challenging Golden Gate Bridge in suicides hosted - the dark side of great bridges

2013-02-04 Local pols doubletalk on Dulles tolls seen

2013-02-03 VA Gov McDonnell trades I-95 toll for sales tax support

2013-02-03 List of most articulate toll chiefs in North America

2013-02-01 What We're Doing to Make Toll Collection an Eco-Friendly Process

2013-01-30 Trip to Vancouver BC to see Port Mann Bridge toll system

2013-01-30 Kansas Governor wants to merge Turnpike into DOT - ADDITION

2013-01-30 Maryland's experience with all-electronic tolling after 14 months

2013-01-29 Bold ideas thrown around by Maryland senate president

2013-01-29 US Sectrans LaHood leaving

2013-01-29 Bill in Connecticut House to toll state's highways

2013-01-28 Phinn and Filmus recognized by IBTTA

2013-01-26 NTTA says agreement with TxDOT over TX360 extension, nothing from TxDOT

2013-01-25 Joseph Resta chosen to be new chief executive of Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge PERSONNEL

2013-01-24 Penn Pike hit in media with reports of poor planning and cars perks

2013-01-24 Focus groups in Washington DC metro area show support for toll express lanes network, strong opposition to VMT charges

2013-01-23 Keynesian prescriptions for government cure of recession based in "a faith immune to reason and facts" QUOTABLE

2013-01-23 Gothenburg 2nd city in Sweden gets central area cordon toll

2013-01-22 Public awareness of tolls sorely needed at state and local level - now in VA, PA

2013-01-22 Jordan Bridge span collapse generates more citations - now against Lane

2013-01-21 Answer to reader who asks us why we don't call it the Commonwealth of Virginia

2013-01-21 Orski says megaprojects will be built with project financing and tolls

2013-01-21 TUV Rheinland, SW Research Institute team to write specs for autonomous vehicles

2013-01-21 More & narrower lanes make urban sense, but for expressways? DESIGN

2013-01-19 Varied toll rates on select corridors raise more revenue and manage traffic better than flat VMT toll - modeling of LA traffic

2013-01-18 Tollers don't feel so bad, US Gov is in the hole with you - Uncle Ben might help you out too?

2013-01-18 Comedy Central's go at reporting the Moroun saga in Detroit - FUN

2013-01-18 DRPA Philly bridges get refinanced to reduce interest bill

2013-01-18 Dulles Greenway on books as a net liability to Macquarie of $490m - would they pay the state to take it? SILLY ACCOUNTING

2013-01-17 MD bill to fund studies, planning, permitting of new Chesapeake Bay Bridge

2013-01-16 Wall Street Journal editorializes for tolls not taxes for VA and other states' roads

2013-01-16 Poole, Reinhardt, and TRB value pricers give tributes to TOLLROADSnews

2013-01-16 Dulles Greenway a net liability to Macquarie of $490m - would they pay Virginia take it off their backs? MISCHIEF

2013-01-15 Republicans in northern Virginia move to socialize Macquarie Group's Dulles Greenway, get subsidies to drop toll rates

2013-01-11 VA495 Express Lanes report good start after 6 weeks - doing 24k weekdays

2013-01-11 Richmond VA Tolls appoint Angela L Gray new CEO

2013-01-11 Reason Foundation's Bob Poole argues for larger role for tolls as budget crises simmer

2013-01-11 IBTTA to do a toll "awareness" campaign, Bob Horr of Thousand Islands NY is new president

2013-01-10 Virginia governor proposes state sales tax hike to replace gas tax for funding transportation

2013-01-09 Association of Independent Pikes

2013-01-09 Optimism about the wisdom, goodness and consummate regulatory skills of the Fed recalled

2013-01-09 State auditor-general again clashes with Pennsylvania Turnpike